When I was in New York for Climate Week, I spotted a restaurant advertising “Save the planet, eat local.” Even at many of the events I attended, organizers went out of their way to highlight the local ...

Poor meal planning is a key reason for household food waste, yet the solution sits right in your kitchen drawer. Careful weekly meal planning helps reduce household waste and the carbon footprint of ...

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Food scraps emit greenhouse gases like methane, which can instead be captured by wastewater plants that are designed to process organic matter.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Noma Nazish writes about actionable ways to live well. New stats from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reveal that ...

Raffaele Mezzenga has turned chicken feathers into fuel cell membranes, found myriad purposes for the milk protein whey, and used black bean proteins in aerogels for capturing carbon dioxide from air.

The numbers are staggering. Global CO2 emissions in 2024 increased by 0.9% on the previous year, totalling 36.3 gigatons of ...